Norman is the best way to touch type

Norman is a fully optimized alternative keyboard layout to QWERTY for touch typing in English. It maintains keyboard shortcuts for the letters QWASZXCV and keeps 22/26 letters in the normal use pattern of their QWERTY finger, if not the original QWERTY location. I think it's all-around better than Colemak, Minimak, Workman, Qwpr, Dvorak, Asset, and Colman, easier to learn, and just as, or more efficient. I'm so confident in this claim, I've even made an installer for Mac with Norman which includes those other layouts.

Downloads

Get started with Norman. It’s completely free! Source files and alternate platforms like Linux are available on Github.

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Licensing

To the extent possible under law,
David Norman
has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to
Norman keyboard layout. Free. No copyright. No patent. No trademark. No license whatsoever. I'm not going to sue you. Just use it and be merry. I documented when I introduced it with Github commits, so if you re-publish it, re-name it, and call it your own new thing, you're the one that'll look dumb. This work is published from:
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